Installing IRC - The Internet Relay Chat Program

SGML version by Christophe Kalt, updated by Piotr Kucharski

1. Installing IRC.

• 1.1 The configure script
• 1.2 Notes for Cygwin32 users
• 1.3 Notes concerning IPv6 support

2. The config.h file

• 2.1 DEBUGMODE
• 2.2 CACHED_MOTD
• 2.3 CHROOTDIR
• 2.4 ENABLE_SUMMON, ENABLE_USERS
• 2.5 SHOW_INVISIBLE_LUSERS, NO_DEFAULT_INVISIBLE
• 2.6 OPER_KILL, OPER_REHASH, OPER_RESTART, OPER_SET, LOCAL_KILL_ONLY
• 2.7 ZIP_LINKS, ZIP_LEVEL
• 2.8 SLOW_ACCEPT
• 2.9 CLONE_CHECK
• 2.10 Other #define's

3. Editing the Makefile, and compiling

4. The ircd.conf file

• 4.1 Machine information
• 4.2 Administrative info
• 4.3 Port connections
• 4.4 Connection Classes
• 4.5 Client connections
• 4.6 Operator priviliges
• 4.7 Excluded accounts
• 4.8 Server connections
• 4.9 Deny auto-connections
• 4.10 Hub connections
• 4.11 Leaf connections
• 4.12 Version limitations
• 4.13 Excluded machines
• 4.14 Service connections
• 4.15 Bounce server

5. Related resources

6. Reporting a bug

• 6.1 How to report a bug
• 6.2 Where to send a bug report